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How did Rocket want "DayZ" pronounced phonetically?

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As some of you may know, we say the letter 'Z' differently in the UK/USA to those in NZ.

We pronounce 'Z' phonetically as "zee", whereas in New Zealand it's "Zed".

So did Rocket - a New Zealander - intend for the game to be pronounced "Dayzee" or "Dayzed"?

Is this important? Not at all.

Does he care? Probably not.

But I was curious.

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Day-Zee. He uses that.

Edit; BUT! Day-Zed is NOT wrong, either. It doesn't matter.

Edited by Dancing.Russian.Man

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Well, as an Australian, I pronounce "DayZ" as "day-zee".

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Day Zeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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day-zee

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Sometimes I just call it "Days". Like "I've been playing Days for Days now" ;-)

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As some of you may know, we say the letter 'Z' differently in the UK/USA to those in NZ.

Folk in the UK don't say it the same way as those in the USA.

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Folk in the UK don't say it the same way as those in the USA.

Could you expand on this? The only way I could imagine an American saying it differently would be in the style of a sassy black woman: "Lafonda, get off yo' ass guuurrrrl, we gon' play sum' Dayzaaaayyyy."

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Could you expand on this? The only way I could imagine an American saying it differently would be in the style of a sassy black woman: "Lafonda, get off yo' ass guuurrrrl, we gon' play sum' Dayzaaaayyyy."

zed - uk

zee - usa

you're now going to tell me you're from the uk, and you say it 'zee', but you've been americanised.

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UK say Zed, Americans need the softer version "Zee" because for some reason they replaced all the Ss in words with Zs just to be different......

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Well, as an Australian, I pronounce "DayZ" as "day-zee".

The correct pronunciation in Australia is actually Day Zed.

Dayzee sounds kind of gay for a "hardcore Zombie survival shooter". But then it is easier to say it quicker.

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I'm in the UK but I've always said "zee" because that's what Sesame St taught me (much to the annoyance of my primary school teachers). All my mates bar 2 say "Day Zed", the other two say "Days".

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As an American anglo-frenchie I use Day Zed alot, and I use "Days" when I want to mess with people.

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It's however you want to pronounce it. If you want to call it "Day Zed" go ahead. If it's "Daisy" then let it be. If you call it "Briaglakfas;dharoiewnavklbline" then that's just fine too.

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I used to call it Daze, but have since changed to Daisy. I think that probably sounds best, comercially.

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Everyone pronounces it as Day-Zee.

However I think Day-Zed makes more sence.

Zed's an acronym for zombie, and it's a zomie game right?

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